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The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma has announced the recipients of the 2007 Ochberg Fellowship. The ten Fellows are:
- Margarita Akhvlediani, Institute for War and Peace Reporting
- Donna Alvis-Banks, Roanoke (Va.) Times
- Moni Basu, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- George Hoff, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- James MacMillan, Philadelphia Daily News
- Michael Marizco, BorderReporter.com
- Tara McKelvey, The American Prospect
- Lisa Millar, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Susan Snyder, Philadelphia Inquirer
- John Trotter, freelance
(Detailed biographies of this year's Fellows follow this announcement...)
Reporting responsibly and credibly on violence and traumatic events — on crime, family violence, natural disasters and accidents, war and genocide — is among the greatest challenges facing contemporary journalism. The Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship, now in its ninth year, was established by the Dart Center in order to better prepare journalists for this challenge.
The fellowship is named for the Dart Center Executive Committee's Chairman Emeritus, Frank Ochberg, M.D., a psychiatrist and pioneer in the understanding of violence and trauma.
The week-long Ochberg Fellowship program offers midcareer journalists a unique opportunity to learn from leading experts in the many dimensions of trauma, and to forge relationships with colleagues who share those interests. Fellows attend several days of seminars, then participate in the annual conference of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (istss.org). This year's program takes place in Baltimore, Maryland, from November 12-17, 2007.
The fellowships were first awarded in 1999. This year's group brings the total number of fellows to 71. For a list of past Fellows, click here.
The 2007 Dart Ochberg Fellows:
Margarita Akhvlediani is the Caucasus Program Director and Regional Editor for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (www.iwpr.net), managing and training journalists from throughout the Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and the North Caucasian regions of Russia. Akhvlediani worked as a reporter, editor and producer at a Georgian newspapers and radio stations through the civil wars and social breakdown of the early 1990s. She helped found the pioneering Caucasian news agency Black Sea Press and was Georgia correspondent for the legendary Russian radio station Ekho Mosky. She joined IWPR in 2002, launching two newspapers that bridge linguistic and political divides, and editing Caucuses Reporting Service. In 2006-2007 she was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University.
Donna Alvis-Banks is a features reporter at the Roanoke (Va.) Times. Raised in Christiansburg, Va., she worked as a classroom teacher at Blacksburg High School before joining the Roanoke Times in 1988. As a features writer and news reporter she has won a Landmark Award and Virginia Press Association Award. On April 16, 2007, she reported the breaking story of the Virginia Tech shootings and led the newspaper's coverage of its aftermath. She now has a new beat, covering the ongoing mental health and social fallout of the shootings.
Moni Basu is a national and international reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She has covered the Iraq war and spent five months embedded with a Georgia Army National Guard brigade. She is now covering soldiers' re-entry into civilian life. She has also reported from Cuba, Chile, Norway, Jordan, Kuwait and India. She covered the devastating 2001 earthquake in Ahmedabad, India, military suicides at Fort Bragg, SARS in Toronto and West Nile virus in Louisiana. In 2005 she was honored as Journalist of the Year by the Atlanta Press Association and has also won awards from the South Asian Journalists Association, Associated Press Managing Editors and the Society of Newspaper Design.
George Hoff is Managing Editor of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News in Ottawa. He has also served as the CBC's director of global news gathering, senior executive producer of news and Washington bureau producer. He is chair of the North American Broadcasters Association Safety and Security Committee and sits on the board of RTNDA Canada.
James MacMillan is senior photographer and photo-columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, where he has worked since 1991. On leave from the Daily News in 2004-2005, he was photo editor for the Associated Press in Iraq, personally covering over 200 combat missions and managing the AP's photo reports and staff development in Baghdad. MacMillan won the Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents; led the Associated Press photo team awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography; and is the recipient of numerous additional awards. MacMillan was a 2006-2007 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. He has taught at Tufts University and Temple University.
Michael Marizco is a freelance journalist and editor of BorderReporter.com, investigating and covering issues in the Mexico-U.S. border regions. He has reported extensively on the killings of migrants, and for the last two years has been investigating the cases of missing and murdered Mexican reporters. He was formerly border reporter for the Arizona Daily Star, covering immigration, national security, politics and government agencies in both Mexico and the US and investigating child smuggling, the under-reporting of immigrant deaths and other issues. He has won a Casey Medal, a Unity Award and several APME awards, among others.
Tara McKelvey is a senior editor at The American Prospect Magazine. She is a research fellow at NYU School of Law's Center on Law and Security and a contributing editor to Marie Claire magazine. McKelvey is the author of "Monstering: Inside America's Policy on Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War," and editor of "One of the Guys: Female Torturers and Aggressors." She has reporting extensively on war crimes, human rights and related issues.
Lisa Millar is a senior journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, working in both radio and television as a journalist and presenter. She was a foreign correspondent for the ABC in Washington, D.C., for three years and has covered major stories in Asia, London and America, including the 2005 Bali bombing and the controversial hanging of an Australian drug runner in Singapore. She won a Walkley Award for investigative reporting in 2005.
Susan Snyder is a staff writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. She has been the Inquirer's education reporter since 1998. Snyder has reported extensively on violence in the lives of Philadelphia children. In 2005 she spent six months reporting "Writing for Their Lives," a series documenting how a single eighth grade class dealt with violence in their own families and communities. That series received a National Headliners Award.
John Trotter is a freelance photojournalist. His photojournalism has appeared in Life, U.S. News and World Report, Nieman Reports, American Photography and numerous other publications on subjects ranging from wetlands to American political conventions to Somalia. In 1997 he was a photographer and photo editor for the Sacramento Bee when he was severely beaten by gang members in a Sacramento neighborhood. Trotter documented his own recovery from traumatic brain injury in Life Magazine and in his book "The Burden of Memory." He is recipient of numerous awards within the US and abroad.
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